Osama bin Laden, the mastermind behind al-Qaida and the world’s most wanted terrorist since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, was killed by a U.S. operation, President Barack Obama announced on Sunday.

In an address to the nation, Obama said bin Laden was killed in a “targeted operation” in Abbottabad, a highland town north of Islamabad, Pakistan.

The operation started with an in-telligence lead last August, and cul-minated in an fi refi ght during which bin Laden was killed.

The U.S. is in the possession of Osama’s body, according to initial reports from multiple U.S. television networks.

Students at SJSU were quick to react to the breaking news.

Alex Moreno, a senior cultural anthropology major, refl ected on the impact of bin Laden’s death.

“I just have mixed feelings about it. It’s like ‘Wow, after 10 years he’s been found,’” Moreno said. “I ques-tion is it really relevant? Because of the time span, is it really a big deal? I’m interested in what’s going to hap-pen next with the war in Afghani-stan. Is the war going to end?”

Bin Laden, 54, was a member of a wealthy Saudi family and was on the FBI’s Most Wanted Fugitives List since 1999.

Al-Qaida has taken responsibility for the bombings of U.S. embassies in 1998 in Tanzania and Kenya. More than 200 people were killed in the at-tacks.

Al-Qaida has also claimed respon-sibility for other attacks on other symbols of U.S. power around the globe. It has spawned local organi-zations in hot spots from Iraq to Af-ghanistan.

Bernard Lachmann. a graduate student in urban planning, said bin Laden was an international fi gure and that his death impacts the whole

globe.“In Europe, of course we have to

deal with this topic, it’s a safety top-ic,” he said.

In a televised address, Obama said, “justice has been done” as he dis-closed that American military and CIA operatives had fi nally cornered bin Laden, who had eluded them for nearly a decade, and shot him to death at a compound in Pakistan.

“For over two decades, bin Laden has been Al Qaida’s leader and sym-bol,” the president said. “The death of bin Laden marks the most signifi cant achievement to date in our nation’s effort to defeat al-Qaida. But his death does not mark the end of our effort.”

Gina Leone, a credential/masters student in critical research academy, said she was unsure about what bin Laden’s death means after all these years.

“I think that people wanted him (bin Laden) dead just because it makes them feel safer,” she said. “I feel like there’s a lot of other people that did the same thing he does, so I don’t how much of an impact it will have.”

To her former SJSU softball teammates, Deanna Mauer was the free-spirited and go-to friend everyone loved to be around and to her a coaches, a valued player.

Mauer, 23 year old 2010 SJSU graduate, died after being rear-ended during a multi-vehicle crash on Interstate 405 in West-minister, Calif., last Wednesday, according to Orange County Coroner’s Offi ce Offi cials.

According to the Orange County Register,. Mauer and a driver of a Porsche both slowed to stop because of a backup on the freeway. A driver of a third vehi-cle failed to stop, hitting the back

of Mauer’s Hyundai, forcing it into the Porsche. Mauer’s Hyun-dai and the third vehicle ended up on the center divider.

Mauer was pronounced dead around 6 p.m. after being taken to the UC Irvine Medical Center.

The cause of the accident is still under investigation.

Mauer’s mother, Dawn, de-scribed her daughter as a “pas-sionate, dedicated and full of life” individual.

Deanna was born on June 14, 1987 in Long Beach, Calif. Her mother described her as a fun-loving person with a huge heart, saying she was “very strong willed and energetic.

According to the SJSU ath-letics website, before coming to SJSU, Mauer attended Central

Arizona College where she played two seasons. She was named to the All-Conference team in 2007 and also played on the USA Na-tional Junior College Athletic Association All-stars in Bangkok, Thailand.

Deanna came to SJSU in the Fall of 2007 as a health science major. She began her SJSU career as a pitcher and was one of wom-en’s softball coach Peter Turner’s fi rst recruits.

“It just saddens me,” he said. “It breaks my heart.

Turner called Mauer “little one.” Saying she was “small in stature but huge in heart when she competed.”

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OBITUARY

In the last decade or so, people have had a chance to see fi rsthand the rise of a company dedicated to giv-ing people the ability to sell their old junk to other people online — a company called eBay.

The Engineering Audi-torium hosted 80 people on Wednesday who had come to listen to Mark Carges, chief technology offi cer and senior vice president for eBay’s global products divi-sion.

Carges, who has been with eBay for the last two years after leaving his posi-tion as the executive vice president of the business

interaction division for soft-ware company BEA Systems Inc, was educated at UC Berkeley and New York Uni-versity.

Carges was showcasing the way eBay works as well as new features from eBay.

“We at eBay are all about thinking in the local, the global and the mobile,” he said. “If a guy wants to sell his car on eBay he can post it online from his house, check its status on his phone and sell it to another person across the globe. This is the world’s largest marketplace.”

One of the new features from eBay that was being showcased was a new func-tion for smartphones called “RedLaser,” an application that lets you scan the bar-codes on items in stores and

immediately fi nd better deals for the same item online.

Other upcoming features from eBay are a program called “Milo,” which lets you look up your favorite stores

and check their in-store in-ventory, and “Where,” a pro-gram which locates shops and restaurants in your town based on criteria that you search for.

“EBay is one of the world’s

largest economies,” says Raji Arasu, eBay vice president of trading product develop-ment. “We have 94 million active customers, 25 mil-lion sellers with 200 million items for sale in 50,000 cat-egories. It’s what we are all about, connecting buyers and sellers.”

Another new feature from eBay is the company’s label printing service, which lets sellers print labels for outgoing items right from the website, Carges said.

“It’s really cool, the way they keep fi nding ways to improve the users experi-ence and make it more con-venient.” said Matt L., a student who attended the presentation. He refused to give his name for confi denti-ality reasons.

Students may fi nd themselves spending more time searching for a quiet place to study in the King Library.

This semester San Jose City College’s Associated Students entered into a contractual agree-ment with the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library that allows its students access to extended study hours along with SJSU students.

“We’ve had numerous requests from individuals as well as repre-sentatives from different commu-nity colleges wondering if there was some way we could allow stu-

dents who are part of their insti-tution access to the study hours,” said Ruth Kifer, dean of the uni-versity library.

Like SJSU students, SJCC stu-dents must present ID cards to King Library security upon enter-ing or staying after hours.

Senior science major Diamond Cook said she is open to sharing extended hours with SJCC stu-dents.

“I actually don’t mind it at all,” she said. “I think they should have a place to study late at night just like state.”

Kifer said the payment is com-parable because of the fact that the library’s extended hours are supported by student fees.

“It’s Associated Student fees from other colleges,” Kifer said.

Linda Meyer, director of San Jose City College Library, said because of the time-consuming nature of the payment process and invoicing, SJSU extended the courtesy to allow SJCC students to enter the King Library for free during extended hours.

“Students were really excited about the 24-hour privileges,” Meyer said.

According to Meyer, San Jose City College Library’s hours will be reduced.

The library will close earlier in the evenings and will be closed Saturdays during the fall semester.

“It is helpful for community

college students to get used to a four-year school atmosphere,” Meyer said.

Students also expressed con-cern about allowing access to ad-ditional colleges.

“I’m not sure we should open it up to all colleges be-cause it could impact us negatively,” Cook said.

Meyer said she believes the ac-cess SJCC students will have at the King Library is a big benefi t.

“There are databases there that we would never in a mil-lion years be able to carry,” she said. “They have access to a quiet, safe study area and to a lot of our students, that’s important.”

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The King Library’s full schedule for fi nals week is expected to be released in early May.

SJSU students brought 17 fi nancial institu-tions and organizations to campus to educate the community about fi nance last week.

As a part of “Financial Literacy for the Com-munity,” workshops were held every hour-and-a-half, aligned to class periods, in Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library and Clark Hall.

Sociology lecturer Michael Fallon was the lead organizer, combining efforts in his Con-temporary Issues course and SJSU’s Center for Community for Learning and Leadership to organize a fi nance event for the community.

“We’re disappointed more students didn’t take advantage of this opportunity,” said Fal-lon, co-director of the Center, in response to the estimated turnout of 100 to 150 students and community guests.

Fallon said the locations probably kept at-tendance down, and that if the event was to happen next year he’d want it outside near more foot traffi c.

“Financial literacy should be important to the community,” he said. “It is to us.”

Fallon and his students, including senior so-ciology major Katie Louey, fundraised for mar-keting and food to support the event.

“A lot of my friends say they know how to budget,” Louey said. “I don’t know if they

really do.”Students were outside the King Library, in

the main area on the fi rst fl oor handing out fl yers, encouraging library guests to attend seminars and meet with fi nancial profession-als.

One of these professionals, Greg Meyer, Meriwest Credit Union community relations manager, directed a fi nancial information session titled “Know Credit, No Problems: A guide to understanding credit reports and credit scores.”

Meyer’s presentation brought a tangible understanding of how interest rates and credit reports work, complete with color handouts paid for by the organizers.

“Our parents didn’t teach us everything about money,” Meyer said. “You have to learn it somewhere.”

“Financial education is important in a time like this,” said Neil Hopper, a Wells Fargo per-sonal banker and credit product specialist. “Af-ter the whole fi nancial collapse, It’s important for SJSU students to have the skills to succeed and not fall into that same trap.”

Hopper described the crowd that attended his seminar, “Hands on Banking,” as eager to learn.

“Students that attended today were more than cheeks in a seat,” he said. “They actually took notes. It’s nice to know that people care about their future.”

Financial literacy is vital for the future, professionals say

Leo PostovoitStaff Writer

Heads of corporate giant eBay visit SJSUNate MorottiStaff Writer

“This is the world’s largest marketplace.”

Mark CargesChief technology offi cer

Illustrations: Leo Postovoit / Spartan Daily

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THIS DAY IN HISTORY ...

• (Above) The Student Union hosted a preview of the theatre arts department’s production of “Fiddler on the Roof,” set to open Friday of that week.

• A hostage hoax prompted a 20-minute evacuation of Sweeney Hall after an anonymous caller said he was holding a prisoner hostage and made a series of demands.

• Counselor Wiggsy Sivertsen accused the Army and Air Force ROTC of discriminat-ing against homosexuals.

• Demolition of Spartan City, a housing complex for married students at 10th and Humboldt Streets, began to make room for new student housing units.

Q&A with LA Times columnist, SJSU alum

As a columnist for the Los Angeles Times, Steve Lopez has written about hundreds of subjects over the years, but none more potent than the story of Nathaniel An-thony Ayers, Jr., a musician from Ohio who dropped out of the famed music school at Juilliard. The re-lationship between the two was the subject for Lopez’s book, ‘The Soloist,” which was made into a motion picture in 2009. Lopez, an SJSU alumnus, returned to his alma mater last week to speak to the School of Jour-nalism and Mass Communi-cations, which showed his fi lm, and to deliver the key-note address at the Honors Convocation. Lopez received a Honorary Doctoral degree for his legacy as a journalist, winning dozens of awards, including the DuPont award for public service reporting from Columbia University.

Can you tell us how Dwight Bentel inspired you in terms of fi nding stories?

Some lessons are obvious, but sometimes we walk right past them. Some of the most obvious are the best. We’ve got an assignment and then we forget to do the most ba-sic thing — keep your eyes and ears open and follow your instincts.

Dwight Bentel told a sto-ry here about a Spartan Daily sports writer who went off to Hawaii to cover a football game. The bombing of Pearl Harbor breaks out, and Ben-tel says, “We’ve got our man on the scene!”

When he shows up a week or two later, he asks the writer where is the story.

“There was no story on ac-count of the war,” he (the writer) said. It was hilarious. Everyone cracked up.

Similarly, a lot of people walked past Nathaniel An-thony Ayers. It’s a street musician — big deal. This guy looks like he’s got is-sues, and do you really want to get sucked into that?You start asking questions and they lead you to a place they never imagined they would.

Did you really roll Ayers’ cart from Skid Row to the outdoor theater at the Walt Disney Concert Hall?

No. (laughs) We rolled it to the Los Angeles Times ga-rage (located one block from the concert hall) and walked up. In the process of writing the movie, you take a 300-page book and create a 120-page script. You need more dramatization. The charac-ters need to develop. They start lower and fi nish higher. That’s how movies go.

They dramatize reality, but I still felt they said all the things I wanted them to say. It didn’t matter to me that I ended up divorced. What mattered to me was that they saw a kind-of-scary-looking guy on the street, helping him, and getting helped along the way. It goes both ways, it’s gratifying.

Since the movie was released, you have been in an active role advocat-ing on behalf of mental health rights. You’re clearly advocating on behalf of something, which breaks the rules that most journal-ists follow. How did your editors at the Los Angeles Times treat this?

I’m a columnist, so the rules are different to begin

with. Even as a columnist, I broke some of the rules, but not without the permission of the editors. I said, “Look, I have to get more person-ally involved with this guy, because we owe it to him. I can’t just abandon him. I’ve got to try to help him get help.”

They understood, and said don’t pull back. If anything, they said, “You have an ob-ligation. We have someone who has learned about this fi eld. Why shouldn’t you go and speak and write about it in an opinion that is well-informed about your experi-ences?”

It’s not something I would want the reporter to do at San Jose State that’s cover-ing administration. It’s why you have different depart-ments at a newspaper — you have someone digging up the details, and then someone else writing an opinion on it.

You, though, could write about the impact about an issue and get a more person-al perspective that helps get the point across. It doesn’t mean you surrender your objectivity.

If the administra-tion does something that people are going to be screwed by, you have got to go and tell the story.

What’s next?I’d like to keep writing

columns for the Los Ange-les Times, and do what I’ve always done for the past 15, 20 years — write a book on the side. I’d also like to keep doing a bit of television. I’m now doing a weekly TV com-mentary for an Los Angeles station. I like all of that, and there’s nothing I’d rather do. I couldn’t see myself in a desk job or a government job.

Leo PostovoitStaff Writer

Later in her career, Turner said Mau-er suffered arm issues.

Turner said he was most proud of Deanna for receiving her degree.

After college Mauer planned to pur-sue a career in cosmetology, but Dawn said it was a career she did not pursue.

“She didn’t go into cosmetology al-though she had more hair styles and colors than most people we know,” her mother said.

Mauer worked at Whole Foods after she graduated, and her mother said she liked to mentor children and was help-ing her former coach, Carey Baker, with the softball team at San Juan Hills High School where she was a four-year letter winner.

Former softball teammate Nicole Luna-Pickens said Mauer was a great friend who always made herself avail-able regardless of what she may have been going through personally.

“There was never a dull moment with her,” Luna-Pickens said. “Her personal-ity and sense of humor will not easily be forgotten.”

Danielle Brown, an SJSU alumna and former softball teammate, described Mauer as a nonjudgmental person who always knew how to make someone feel better.

She said upon meeting Mauer, she made her feel as if they were old friends. Brown also refl ected upon a time she and Deanna were in her car and it lost control.

“It was raining and my car spun out and we did about two doughnuts and neither of us said anything,” Brown said. “When we stopped she just said ‘Whoa, we just walked away from that with a fl at tire.’

“She was very dedicated and loyal. She was one of the most confi dent peo-ple I knew.”

Former teammate Alissa Murphy said she is heartbroken to have lost an amazing friend.

“I knew, as both a teammate and friend, that I could come to Deanna whenever I needed a shoulder to cry on or just smile,” she said. “She was there for anyone and everyone who needed her.”

Outside of softball, Murphy said Mauer also enjoyed crocheting.

“I remember taking trips with her to Michael’s (Craft Store) to get yarn so we could just sit on the couch like old la-dies making blankets and scarves,” Mur-phy said.

Close family friend Colleen Krueger said she is grateful to have had Deanna in her family’s lives.

“I never heard anyone say a bad thing about her,” Krueger said. “Every girl I know who played with her and every coach I know who has had her on their team have spoken highly of her since she was 6 years old.”

Mauer is survived by her mother Dawn Mauer, father Howard Mauer, brothers John and Mark Minnott and sister Christy Mauer.

Funeral arrangements have been made by Deanna’s family. The viewing will be held on Wednesday at Dilday Funeral Home in Huntington Beach, Calif., from 5 p.m. - 9 p.m.

The funeral will be held Thursday at St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church in Huntington Beach at 2 p.m. The burial will follow at Good Shepherd Cem-etery.

SJSU women’s softball will honor Mauer on Friday and Saturday at the SJSU softball at the games against Ha-waii. Deanna’s parents Dawn and How-ard Mauer are expected to be in atten-dance.

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BENGHAZI, Libya — Enraged crowds attacked the embassies of Britain and Italy in the Libyan capital of Tripoli on Sunday after an international airstrike that Libyan offi cials say killed the youngest son of President Moammar Gadhafi and three of the dictator’s grand-children.

The United Nations compound was reportedly looted and the agency was said to be plan-ning to move out its remaining personnel.

The intensifi ed bombing campaign by NATO warplanes appears to have accelerated the pace of developments in Libya, where rebels backed by NATO air power are fi ghting to oust Gadhafi after 40 years as the nation’s absolute ruler.

NATO defended Saturday’s airstrike after criticism from Russia and Venezuela, among others, that the alliance was overstepping its mandate to protect Libyan civilians and may be targeting the Libyan leader.

On Sunday, NATO offi cials said their attacks targeted “a known command and control building” and were not designed to assassinate the Libyan leader. Targeted assassination would violate both international and U.S. law.

However, a NATO offi cial noted that “command and control centers don’t operate them-selves,” suggesting some ambiguity in the defi ning of targets.

Washington and several European allies have said Gadhafi must step down, but that the bombing strikes are strictly meant to protect civilians, not target him.

In the past two days, Gadhafi has reportedly twice been close to locations where NATO missiles struck.

Britain’s Foreign Offi ce on Sunday announced the expulsion of Libya’s ambassador after news that Libyans had attacked the British Embassy in Tripoli. Foreign Minister William Hague said Ambassador Omar Jelban “had 24 hours to leave the country,” saying the Libyan regime “had failed to protect diplomatic missions in Tripoli.”

“I condemn the attacks on the British Embassy premises in Tripoli as well as the diplo-matic missions of other countries,” Hague said.

He said the Vienna Conventions required Gadhafi ’s regime “to protect diplomatic mis-sions in Tripoli. By failing to do so that regime has once again breached its international responsibilities and obligations.”

“The attacks against diplomatic missions will not weaken our resolve to protect the civil-ian population in Libya,” Hague said.

Libyan authorities said a NATO strike hit a house where Gadhafi , his wife, and other fam-ily and friends were socializing. They said Gadhafi and his wife survived, but Gadhafi ’s son, Seif Arab Gadhafi , 29, and three of the leader’s grandchildren were killed.

Tuesday, May 3

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5:30 p.m. - 7 p.m., A.S. Child Development Center

A.S. Child Development Center Art Faire & Silent Auction

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NATO doubts Libyan claim that airstrike killed Gadhafi ’s sonCompiled FromMcClatchy Tribune

BENGHAZI, Libya — NATO has found no evidence to support claims by the Libyan gov-ernment that an airstrike in Tripoli killed Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi ’s youngest son and three grandchildren, two military offi cials said Sunday.

What the Libyan government called a residence — where Gadhafi ’s son, Saif al Arab, and three grandchildren lived when the structure was struck Saturday night — was, in fact, a com-mand and control center with a bunker underneath, the NATO and U.S. offi cials said on the condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to speak publicly about NATO’s fi ndings.

The offi cials also rejected suggestions that the attack targeted Gadhafi . Regime offi cials said that Gadhafi and his wife were at the Tripoli home of their son when the airstrike took place; both escaped unharmed.

“We have seen no evidence of civilian casualties,” the NATO offi cial said. “We do not target individuals and have no real way of knowing who is inside.”

The offi cials said they couldn’t say the regime was lying, simply that they couldn’t confi rm the claims. Privately, however, offi cials at the Pentagon suggested that the regime claimed that civilians and children died by a NATO strike to divide an already confl icted international com-munity over its effort here. In Benghazi, the rebel capital, residents were dubious, noting that Gadhafi has said family members have died at the world community’s hands before.

After the U.S. attacked the regime’s military headquarters in 1986, Gadhafi said his adopted daughter had been killed. Even now, Libyans aren’t certain whether that’s true.

NATO refused to say what kind of aircraft was involved in Saturday’s attack, saying it didn’t want to link the attack to one country.

Western offi cials have been divided in recent weeks over whether Gadhafi is a legitimate military target under the U.N. Security Council resolution that authorized the air campaign to protect civilians.

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said last week that NATO was “not targeting Gadhafi specifi cally” but that his command-and-control facilities were legitimate targets.

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Senior quarterback Matt Faulkner looks downfi eld during the Spring Game on Saturday.

Spartan blue and gold scattered both sidelines at Spartan Stadium on Saturday as the SJSU football team held its annual Spring Game.

The White squad out-dueled the Blue squad 21-7 behind touchdown passes by each of the three candidates vying for the starting quarterback position when the football season be-gins in the fall.

Head coach Mike MacIntyre said he was pleased with what he saw from his team on Saturday.

“It went about how I hoped it would,” he said. “The game told us we can run the ball a little bit, our quarterbacks can hit the open receivers, our secondary and defensive backs and linebackers are able to make some plays.”

The scoring started off when the White squad’s sophomore quarterback Dasmen Stewart connected with junior tight end Ryan Otten for an 11-yard touchdown pass.

Redshirt freshman quarterback Blake Jurich was heard from in the second quarter when he connected with senior wide re-ceiver Josh Harrison on a 67-yard touchdown pass down the middle of the fi eld.

The reception was the game’s longest play, stretching the White squad’s lead to 14-0.

Senior quarterback Matt Faulkner, who is the only candi-date with playing experience at SJSU, hit sophomore wide re-ceiver Chandler Jones for a 5-yard touchdown pass in the third quarter to close out the scoring for the White squad.

Jurich’s 4-yard touchdown run in the second quarter was the only score for the Blue squad.

Following the game, MacIntyre said all three quarter-backs competing for the starting role made great plays on the field Saturday, which has come from their work output this spring.

“I am pleased with what they each did all spring,” he said. “They have all improved tremendously from last year.”

MacIntyre said each candidate brings his own style of play to the table and the offense is prepared to conform and tweak itself to his strengths.

“That’s one of the beauties of our offense,” he said. “We are able to be pretty balanced. We can open it up with our receiv-ers. Our running backs will do a lot better and our line is better coming off the football.”

Faulkner ended up with the most the passing yards and com-pletions on 10-15 passing for 128 yards and a single touchdown.

However, Faulkner threw two interceptions, one to senior defensive back Alex Germany and the other to sophomore linebacker Keith Smith, who was named Western Athletic Conference freshman of the year in 2010.

MacIntyre said Smith has become bigger, stronger and has elevated his game since last season and expects even bigger plays out of Smith this season.

“He is starting to become much more comfortable out there,” he said. “I expect him to not just make tackles, but in-terceptions, sacks and caused fumbles. He has developed to that stage and I am pleased where (Smith) is going.”

Smith said he was pleased with his play Saturday, but said he is never satisfi ed.

“I have been working on a lot this spring,” he said. “I have been focusing on pass drops and getting out concepts down more. That comes with experience and it is starting to come together. I’m always working on my game and there is always room for improvement.”

Jones fi nished second-highest in receiving for the afternoon with 43 yards on three catches and a touchdown.

Jones said it was a solid performance all around by the Spar-tan football team on Saturday.

“It felt like we all clicked and made good plays out there,” he said. “The defense was all in their right spots. They were out there making plays when they had to.”

MacIntyre said he saw his offensive and defensive line’s hard work during the spring pay off.

“The physicalness of our lines has improved tremendously,” he said. “We’ve really been trying to make a hard push of low-man wins and coming of the football defensively and offensively.”

MacIntrye said most importantly he feels the depth of the team this spring is much improved from 2010.

“Everybody should be back at training camp, which is a great thing for us,” he said. “This was not the case last year. We lost three or four men for the season last spring and that has not happened this spring. We credit that to a few more bodies we have this year.”

Adding to the Spartans’ depth are defensive seniors Duke Ihenacho and Pompey Festejo, who are returning from inju-ries last season. Smith said he is looking forward to playing with these two leaders on the Spartan defense.

“Adding these guys to the lineup is going to be great for our team,” he said. “Freshmen like myself have not gotten the chance to play with them and everyone talks about how en-thusiastic they are. I know I can feed off them and they can feed off me because we are emotional players.”

Smith said he is mostly looking forward to getting back onto the fi eld in game situations, especially the opening game against Stanford, but said his WAC freshman of the year award last season means nothing now.

“This is a new year, a new game,” he said. “I have to be a better player, and a better team player to help lead my team to victories.”

Ron GleesonStaff Writer

Fresh, familiar faces shine in Spring Game scrimmage

Photo: Jesse Jones / Spartan DailyFreshman running back Ben Thompson looks on while on the sidelines Saturday. The Blue squad won the annual intersquad matchup 21-7.

SPRING GAME STATS

Matt Faulkner: 10-15, 128 yds., 1 TD, 2 INTBlake Jurich: 2-5, 76 yds., 2 TD (1 rushing)Dasmen Stewart: 7-13, 79 yds., 1 TD

PASSING:

Ben Thompson (Blue): 9 rush, 23 yds.Brandon Rutley (White): 4 rush, 15 yds.

RUSHING:

Josh Harrison: 3 rec, 81 yds., 1 TDChandler Jones: 3 rec, 43 yds., 1 TDRyan Otten: 2 rec, 17 yds. 1 TD

RECEIVING:

Keith Smith (Blue): 1 INTAlex Germany (White): 1 INTVincent Abbott (Blue): 2 sacks

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Cheap, interesting and tasty food close to Down-town San Jose and SJSU: the ultimate combination for a college student.

It sounds like a stretch, but there is life beyond orange sauce and carne asada burri-tos, and one of those options is the Kumako Ramen in San Jose’s Japantown.

Kumako is a small noodle shop tucked away on the main drag of Japantown that serves up some of the best ramen this side of the Pacifi c.

When I say the shop is small, I mean it can be eas-ily passed by without being noticed.

It seats roughly 25 people at any given time, so large groups wouldn’t be recom-mended and I have seen the restaurant fi ll up quickly on weekend nights.

But when you can fi nd a seat, it’s worth the wait.

The shop offers a variety of Japanese dishes ranging from soups to rice and curry dishes, but the best meal is the gyoza and ramen.

The gyoza, fried Japa-nese pork dumplings offers

a great combination of salty and savory fl avors.

After the small platter of gyoza comes the soup. I had the stir-fried ramen, which had a mixture of cabbage, carrots and other vegetables in pork broth served with noodles.

It may not sound like much, but the portions are out of control in the best possible way.

The soups come in huge, gallon-size-looking bowls that would be almost im-possible to walk away from feeling unsatisfi ed or like you’re not going to fall into a food-induced coma.

The price of the food is OK, but it could be seen as a bit pricey for college stu-dents — the average price of a meal runs about $11 and a dinner for two can be about $30, consisting of two bowls of ramen and an order of gyoza.

They’re that good so it is mandatory to order them with your meal.

The biggest disadvan-tage of Kumako Ramen, be-sides the physical size of the restaurant, are the operating hours, which are odd.

From Monday to Friday the shop is open from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. and then opens again for the dinner rush from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m.

On Saturday, the restau-rant is open from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.

These hours are a bit in-convenient, especially since it’s down the street from watering holes such as 7 Bamboo Karaoke Lounge and Hukilau San Jose.

Kumako Ramen would be the perfect sobering meal on Thursday nights and weekends if it was open later, but unfortunately it’s only an option if the night ends rather early.

RESTAURANT REVIEW

Photo: Donovan Farnham / Spartan Daily

The stir-fried ramen at Kumako Ramen is a mixture of cabbage, carrots and other vegetables in pork broth served with noodles.

Ramen house serves up the whole

kit ’n’ ca-noodle

Donovan FarnhamSenior Staff Writer

Kumako Ramen at a Glance

Cuisine: Traditional Japanese

Location: 211 Jackson St., San Jose

Hours: Mon-Fri 11 a.m. - 2:30 p.m., 5 p.m. - 9 p.m. Sat 11 a.m. - 9 p.m. Sun 11 a.m. - 7 p.m.

Nestled in the heart of Japantown, this hole-in-the-wall satisfi es soupy cravings

President Obama finally released his birth certificate last Wednesday to hopefully put to rest the endless conspiracy theories about his birth that have plagued him since he took office several years ago.

All I have to say about this is “Are we done now?”

And to answer my own question: “Prob-ably not.”

I have grown weary of political banter over the last few years because I can’t stand these outlandish claims about who and/or what our president is.

I would be first to say, “Yeah, I voted for Obama and I’m not exactly satisfied with the way he has done things,” but what has pissed me off more than what he has done is how his opponents have gone on these megalomaniacal rants about him that have almost no basis in reality.

According to what conservative talk show hosts such as Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck (who is now off Fox News) and Sean Hannity, our president is a fascist, communist, racist, elitist, Kenyan-born Muslim hell-bent on destroying the American way of life.

Right … I might have believed their narrative if they just stuck to one at least.

People in this country are wondering why our govern-ment is so inept — well, besides their own incompetence they just waste too much time bickering about what each side is rather than what their side can do for this country.

I’m not just talking about Republicans here — Demo-crats are guilty too.

They did the same thing to Bush when he was in office and while I definitely don’t consider myself a fan of the former presi-dent, I never believed the hype by some lib-erals who said he was going to bring about a fascist dictatorship in this country.

Well, maybe Dick Cheney would have but that’s not the point.

The problem with politics in this country is that there is too much name-calling and not enough discussion.

At some point the rhetoric of our politi-cians needs to match the reality of what’s going on.

Politicians are more wrapped up in their war of words with each other than they are

with solving problems.If you have ever seen a political convention for a party

it’s 10 percent extolling your campaign promises and 90 per-cent lambasting your opponent.

I don’t even think it’s politics anymore — it’s more like a UFC fight card.

I mean why not? With the rising popularity of mixed martial arts, why not

just put the two presidential candidates of each party in the octagon and have them duke it out among each other until someone gets KO’ed or submitted.

I joke, but I have grown cynical with politics.There’s a reason that out of all the topics I write about in

journalism the one I try to avoid most is politics, because it just make me angry.

Politicians have ridden the hate train for too long and

to quote Howard Beale from “The Network” — “I’m mad as hell!”

There are people in this country who are without work, health care, and are struggling to make ends meet and our government is wasting its time arguing over where our pres-ident was born.

Hopefully sometime in the future, politicians and pun-dits alike will learn to talk civilly among each other but un-til that time I’ll remain cynical of our government’s never-ending war with itself.

“Wes Side Story” is a weekly column appearing on Mondays. Wesley Dugle is a Spartan Daily Staff Writer.

As the San Jose Sharks take a 2-0 lead in their series against the Detroit Red Wings, I sit here knowing that I’m going to catch a lot of fl ak for the next day or so for being a fan of the hated Sharks rival.

At this point I’m used to it. After all, I’m not much of a fan of any local teams. I’m a Wings fan, a Chicago Bulls fan and a Tennessee Titans fan — screw baseball.

I’ll take a swag (sophisti-cated wild ass guess) at what you’re thinking: “What the hell?!”

I don’t fi nd my “strange” views on picking teams to root for weird, instead I fi nd it almost absurd that people choose their teams based on whichever one plays its home games closest to where they live.

I understand that having a strong fanbase from the sur-rounding community is what makes professional sports so successful. I get that it’s great to have a whole crowd of peo-ple all coming together with the one common hope of want-ing their favorite team pull off another victory.

But I still just don’t under-stand the blind loyalty.

We’ve witnessed a lack of loyalty from several teams in the sporting world recently — the Seattle SuperSonics leaving town for Oklahoma City, the Sacramento Kings doing everything they can to leave for Anaheim, the Phoe-nix Coyotes likely moving back to Winnipeg, the Buffalo Bills have discussed moving to

Toronto — I can keep this go-ing and stay within just the last 10 years.

Owners threaten to move their teams if a city refuses to pay for a new stadium. Yes, mister billionaire owner wants you Joe Six-Pack to foot the bill.

Wait, don’t we already pay for the tickets, buy team mer-chandise and pay for extremely overpriced hot dogs and beer?

How have they managed to justify a system where these billionaire owners force us to pay for brand new stadiums or they leave? Where’s the loyalty on their end?

When we do fi nally cave in and give the owners the ritzy, state-of-the-art stadium they’ve been seeking, the cost of tickets then go up, making it more diffi cult for the average family to afford season tickets, while the value of the owner’s franchise rises signifi cantly.

Oh, bonus for the owners, they get to sell naming rights to some company for millions of dollars.

Somehow this has been al-lowed under the guise of it putting your city “on the map,” providing jobs and boosting the profi ts of businesses in the surrounding area.

Some of this may be true, but I wish I could mastermind this concept for a business of my own.

Hey San Jose, I’m starting my own newspaper — the “One-Man Peanut Gallery” is about to get a whole lot bigger. Here’s the thing though, I need you to pay for a new building for my staff and me, new com-puters, offi ce supplies, etc., otherwise I’ll be taking my tal-ents to another location.

All kidding aside, what oth-er business do you know of that can pull off this type of dizzying wizardry at the nego-tiation table?

These billionaires have pur-chased franchises in businesses where failure is almost almost impossible.

The NFL had 19 of its 32 teams worth upwards of $1 billion in 2009 according to Forbes.

In 2003, there wasn’t even one sports franchise in the world worth more than $1 bil-lion. MLB doesn’t have any an-titrust laws to worry about.

The government decided to give them the monopoly on baseball — there will never be another baseball league in the U.S.

These billionaires aren’t loyal to us, they’re loyal to money. They view the sports landscape from a completely different viewpoint than the rest of us.

I get it, the Sharks are right here in San Jose, but don’t put blinders on and be fooled into thinking that there’s no way they would ever leave.

They’re as loyal to you as you are to a guy that has yet to be drafted to your team.

All I’m asking is that you all look past the B.S. Congrats on the win.

“One-Man Peanut Gallery” is a column appearing every other Monday. Marlon Maloney is a Spartan Daily Copy Editor.

Political rhetoric needs to match social reality

In a world full of boo-tylicious idols and booty pop panties advertised to make a woman’s butt “Go from flat to fab in a pop,” a woman can’t help but look at her derriere in the mirror and wonder if what she has is enough.

For the longest time breast implants were what women were running to have done as soon as they hit the legal age of 18. However, in recent years, butt augmentation proce-dures are on the rise and many women are taking life threatening risks to get a Beyonce, Jennifer Lopez or even in some extreme cases, a Nicki Minaj-looking backside.

Growing up I was made fun of in grade school and junior high for having a big-ger backside than the rest of the girls at my school. I was teased and told I had a “ghetto booty.”

Whether that meant, it was a feature girls who lived in poverty stricken areas only possessed, I didn’t know — I just knew something about my body wasn’t considered “normal.”

As I got older I noticed my curves were more appealing, something my friends wish they had a little more of and some-thing guys began to take notice of and compliment me on. And now I see it is a feature women are dying for.

According to the American Journal of Cosmetic Surgery, the first buttock aug-mentation was conducted in 1969 and ever since women have been lining up in clinics and hotel rooms at an increasing rate to get them.

Gluteoplasty, also known as the Brazil-ian butt lift, is a procedure that removes excess fat from other parts of your body and injects it into the buttocks. Another form of gluteoplasty is butt implants. This involves inserting implants to enhance either the lower or upper buttocks.

These procedures aver-age to cost a little more than $4,800, so many women are opting for a cheaper and illegal hydro-gel procedure. Hydrogel is a procedure that involves injections of a gel into the buttocks and has multiple risks.

In April, a 42-year-old woman died after having a butt-enhancing procedure done at the hands of an unlicensed Colombian doctor in a

Las Vegas clinic.In February, a 20-year-old woman also

died from silicone injections into her backside inside of a Philadelphia hotel.

In 2009, former Miss Argentina So-lange Magnano died from complications after a gluteoplasty procedure. Liquid sil-icone injected into her body traveled to her brain and lungs, causing her to suffer a pulmonary embolism the day after her procedure.

The Food and Drug Administration approves the use of silicone for cosmetic purposes — however, injections of liquid silicone and hydrogel for cosmetic pur-poses are against the law.

Many individuals at one point in time have used materials such as hair weaves, acrylic nails, contact lenses or cosmetics to enhance their natural beauty. How-ever, when it comes to women believing it is necessary to invest their finances in dangerous surgical procedures that are il-legal and life threatening, there is a prob-lem.

Regardless of how many cosmetic pro-duces a woman feels she may need or however many booty pop panties she may buy to look media-airbrushed “perfect,” if she does not possess self-esteem her body will never appear right and she will never be satisfied with her looks.

Maybe instead of a larger backside, it’s a boost of self-esteem you need.

Why not to support

home teams

Whitney EllardStaff Writer

American Women: Dying to become bootylicious

Wesley DugleWes Side Story

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